We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.